So I have changed “identities” twice in the last year or so. I started with my portfolio being “Onedeep Designs” which – while functional – just never really sat right with me. Having been in government for more than a decade, I had begun to transition to “Designing dot Gov,” which I felt really suited me.
However, I realized that while Designing dot Gov was a great identity, it was too limiting. Originally, I was ok with that. After all, 10+ years in the government sector tends to encourage many more years, so what’s the harm in boxing myself in?
But after some change of perspective at the federal office where I work (more on that later), as well as my wife and I opening our own business, I decided I might just need to be a bit more broad than dot Gov would allow, so I decided on something simple: Designing Sean.
I settled on this pretty quickly, and with no real consolation from the folks I usually bounce ideas off of. It probably helped that I was coming from Designing dot Gov, so I was already in the mindset of talking about what I was building and why. And then I realized that these designs and blog posts weren’t just about designs and web happenings, but were really about me (deep, I know). Or more to the point, how they impacted me and who I am as a designer.
So here we are. I am just starting to get some content in, though I doubt everything will transfer from the original Onedeep portfolio. But now that I am actually satisfied with the idea, name, and layout…I am hoping that the content will be much easier to arrive at.
